Deputy Program Director Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM)

Head Center of Landscape Resilience & Management (CLR)

Dr. Florian Kraxner has been Deputy Director of IIASA’s Ecosystems Services and Management Program (ESM) since 2014 and was formerly Deputy Program Leader of the ESM Forestry Program. Dr. Kraxner also leads ESM’s Center of Landscape Resilience & Management (CLR) which concentrates on developing a biophysical land-use modeling cluster consisting of a biophysical Global Forestry Model (G4M), a process-based global agricultural model (EPIC), and a techno-economic engineering model for the assessment of renewable energy systems (BeWhere) which is relying to a large extent on information provided by the other two models. He has a longstanding research experience and publication track record in sustainable forest management, forest modeling, the socioeconomics and policies of the land use change and forestry sectors as well as sustainable biomass-based bioenergy, other renewables and Global Greenhouse Gas Reduction (GGR) Technologies.